British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 16James Ridgway, 1849 |
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Page 71 - ... in the growth of plants according to the known abundance or scarcity of humus in the soil, seemed to afford incontestable proof of its correctness. Yet, this position, when submitted to a strict examination, is found to be untenable, and it becomes evident from most conclusive proofs that humus in the form in which it exists in the soil does not yield the smallest nourishment to plants.
Page 110 - I conceive it will not be out of place here to give a short account of their rise, and of their effect on the progress of physical science.
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Page 99 - The other mode of rendering chalk soluble in water is nearly the reverse. In the former mode, a pound of pure chalk becomes dissolved in water in consequence of losing seven ounces of carbonic acid. To dissolve in the second mode, not only must the pound of chalk not lose the seven ounces of carbonic acid that it contains, but it must combine with seven additional ounces of that acid. In such a state of combination, chalk...
Page 402 - ... intentions of riding to Richmond. My little family would have been glad to see you, and you would have seen, I think, the best piece of meadow in Carolina, whence (when I leave this country) you might be able to add one to the few observations which may be made upon an unimportant character, viz., that I had made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before — a circumstance among some nations of no small honor and renown.
Page 353 - ... the subject, we believe that some legislative measure will be found necessary in order to give efficacy to such agreements, as well as to provide for those cases which cannot be settled by private arrangement.
Page 234 - Ligher than it had been perhaps before. The jets were made with inconceivable velocity, and those which escaped uninterrupted terminated in sharp points, and lost themselves in the air.
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Page 447 - In order to ascertain the effects of different kinds of charcoal, experiments were made upon that obtained from the hard woods and peat, and also upon animal charcoal, although I foresaw the probability that none of them would answer so well as that of pine wood, both on account of its porosity and the ease with which it is decomposed.